History VideoGame / VoidStranger

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Gray's story ends with her and Lily's unborn daughter being warped from the medieval era that Johann ruined to modern day. At the end of Lilith mode, the demons allow Lily to leave with her daughter, but she's then shown struggling to adapt to life without her royal privileges.

* VideoGameLives: If Gray or Lillie has not died and come back under VOID status yet, then the Locust Idols that can be collected throughout the game are used like this; instead of dying, a Locust Idol will be used to revive her. This is the only mistake insurance in the game short of going VOID, as although she seems to have 7 hit points, all enemy contact is lethal. Cia, as a demon, starts her mode with VOID status already enabled.

* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: One floor contains a giant SnakePerson who states that her appearance shifts to match the beloved of whoever gazes upon her. In Gray's mode, their upper body resembles Princess Lily, while in Lillie's mode, her true self of a three-eyed snake head is shown due to Lillie not having a beloved.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: After reaching the bottom of the Void, Gray decides which soul to take back with her, and the credits roll. The game then closes, and booting it back up cuts to years later, where Gray's adoptive daughter searches their house for a birth certificate before seeing a demon and falling into the Void... unlocking the brand for Lillie mode, in which the daughter must now reach the bottom of an even ''harder'' version of the game.

* CollisionDamage: If Gray collides with another enemy, she dies instantly.

** During a different dream flashback, Gray tries picking a fight with one of the demons Johann bargained with, to prevent them from taking Princess Lily's soul as part of Johann's deal with them. Trying to attack the demon just causes Gray to take counter damage, and if she stalls by defending or checking the demon's status, it will quickly become bored and attack for over a thousand damage.

* MementoMacGuffin: The pendant that Gray has with her at the start of the game is revealed near the end of her mode as a gift from Princess Lily before demons took her soul in exchange for saving Gray's life.

* OneHitPointWonder: If Gray comes in contact with any enemy and does not have VOID status, she instantly dies. Nominally, she does have 10 hit points, but she loses 3 upon entering the dungeon due to the deep fall and never gets them back, and all enemy contact takes away [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 999 HP]], making her effectively this trope. However, averted during the RPG sequences in the dream flashbacks, where she is capable of taking multiple hits.

* VideoGameLives: If Gray has not died and come back under VOID status yet, then the Locust Idols that can be collected throughout the game are used like this; instead of dying, a Locust Idol will be used to revive her. This is the only mistake insurance in the game short of going VOID, as although she seems to have 7 hit points, all enemy contact is lethal.

* GainaxEnding: The first time through, and following a dream sequence where Gray is arrested for her alleged murder attempt of Princess Lily, the player is locked into an ending where a vocal track plays with the lyrics shown in place of the HUD. At first they make their way through floors with abruptly easier solutions, but then start being periodically and inexplicably teleported to much deeper floors before they can finish the previous one. These floors feature [[UnwinnableByDesign unsolvable puzzles]] (e.g. the exit cannot be reached or simply ''doesn't exist'') and eventually, the player comes across floors with incoherently-arranged tiles, until they start rapidly and uncontrollably teleporting around an ever-changing mess of tiles. Eventually, the floor counter turns into question marks and finally, they reach a rest floor with a tree, but when Gray falls asleep, she's unable to dream at all. The next floor forces her to step onto an exit with a Dark Idol placed above it, introducing the player to the ResetButton mechanic if they have not incidentally discovered it already.

--> The game autosaves between each room, so take it easy \\

---> ''Only a simple memory will remain.''

* NintendoHard: Many of the puzzles will seem impossible at first and will require you to think very deeply about your surroundings. It's rather telling that the game's store blurbs offer only these pieces of advice:

--> ''Only a simple memory will remain.''

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: After reaching the bottom of the Void, Gray decides which soul to take back with her, and the credits roll. The game then closes, and booting it back up cuts to years later, where Gray's adoptive daughter searches their house for a birth certificate before seeing a demon and falling into the Void... unlocking Lillie mode, in which the daughter must now reach the bottom of an even ''harder'' version of the game.

* DealWithTheDevil: In her final Memory before reaching the end of the Void, Gray remembers breaking out of the dungeons to confront Prince Johann. Johann then reveals that to survive, he made a deal with beings comparable to demons in order to gain phenomenal power, with the final sacrifice to complete it being Princess Lily on the day of their wedding. When Gray tries to stop him by offering her soul in place of Lily's, Lily interrupts by making her own deal with the demons: her soul in exchange for protecting Gray. The demons decide to honor Lily's deal, and with Johann's deal now unable to be completed in time, he loses all of his powers and is quickly killed by Gray.

* SaveScumming: If you fail on a floor, you can force quit the game and reload to avoid losing a life. Just don't do it too much, or the game might take offense...

* HopelessBossFight: During one of the dream flashbacks, Gray and Princess Lily are accosted by a group of bandits. Gray is forced to unleash her "Gray the Destroyer" form, which results in a boss fight...from the ''bandits''[='=] point-of-view, as the bandits fail to even harm her at all. In other words, ''the protagonist'' is the Hopeless Boss Fight.

* SaveScumming: If you fail on a floor, you can force quit the game and reload to avoid losing a life. [[spoiler: Just don't do it too much, or the game might take offense...]]

* EffortlessAchievement: When starting the Steam version of the game up for the first time, you instantly get the "Pendant" achievement, the game's ''only'' Steam achievement.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Downplayed. The gameplay trailers and promotional screenshots show some of the game's dungeon floors, but the floor counter is obscured with question marks, so that a prospective player will know that the floor exists, but not ''where'' that floor is.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Downplayed. The gameplay trailers and promotional screenshots show some of the game's dungeon floors, but the floor counter is obscured with question marks, so that a prospective player will know that the floor exists, but not ''where'' that floor is.

!!Due to the puzzle-driven and twist-heavy nature of this game, it is virtually impossible to talk about it in-depth without mentioning major spoilers (even mentioning ''game mechanics'' can be spoilers); as such, ALL SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED. This work description and [[Laconic/VoidStranger the Laconic page]] are the only pages that will not have spoilers; beware entering any other subpages as they will also have unmarked spoilers. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!

!!Due to the puzzle-driven and twist-heavy nature of this game, it is virtually impossible to talk about it in-depth without mentioning major spoilers; as such, ALL SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED. This work description and [[Laconic/VoidStranger the Laconic page]] are the only pages that will not have spoilers; beware entering any other subpages as they will also have unmarked spoilers. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!

* DungeonBypass: If you fall into a BottomlessPit under one of the triangular idols with some Locust Idols on you, you will warp ahead by however many Locust Idols you have. This is not necessarily a good thing, as it means you may miss out on items needed for endings or HundredPercentCompletion, and you cannot go back up to previou sfloors.

* AchievementSystem: Subverted if playing the Steam version. There is a single achievement, "Pendant", that is obtained [[EffortlessAchivement simply by starting the game]]. In fact, it's presented less like an achievement and more like a key item.

* VideoGameLives: If Gray has not died and come back under VOID status yet, then the Locust Idols that can be collected throughout the game are used like this; instead of dying, a Locust Idol will be used to revive her. This is the only mistake insurance in the game, as although she seems to have 7 hit points, all enemy contact is lethal.

* HopelessBossFight: During one of the dream flashbacks, Gray and Princess Lily are accosted by a group of bandits. Gray is forced to unleash her "Gray the Destroyer" form, which results in a boss fight...from the ''bandits''[='=] point-of-view, as the bandit fails to even harm her at all. In other words, ''the protagonist'' is the Hopeless Boss Fight.

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